Beyond Wikipedia: 19 References You Can't Do Without February 19, 2008 | 200,905 views Share Wikipedia can serve as a great introduction to a subject, and connect you to other related ideas, people and places. Bartleby -- Famous quotes and full poetry texts Citizendium -- More “professional” Wikipedia, although usually not as detailed Answers.com -- Makes use of the information on Wikipedia and many other reference sites to become a one stop shop ePodunk -- Information about cities and places Encyclopedia Britannica -- An excellent source of information, and much more authoritative than Wikipedia. Scholarpedia -- A step up from both Wikipedia and Citizendium in terms of scholarly respectability; the articles are all written by experts with peer review JSTOR (limited access; talk to your school or library) -- All those stuffy journals around your professor’s office, and articles in your course packets Oxford English Dictionary (limited access; talk to your school or library) -- The definitive resource when it comes to the English language
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Online Learning: A Bachelor's Level Computer Science Program Curriculum Introduction [Update: See also the follow-up post to this piece, An Intensive Bachelor's Level Computer Science Curriculum Program.] A few months back we took an in-depth look at MIT’s free online Introduction to Computer Science course, and laid out a self-study time table to complete the class within four months, along with a companion post providing learning benchmarks to chart your progress. In the present article, I'll step back and take a much more broad look at com-sci course offerings available for free on the internet, in order to answer a deceptively straightforward question: is it possible to complete the equivalent of a college bachelor’s degree in computer science through college and university courses that are freely available online? The former question is more difficult to answer than it may at first appear. Yet, this does not mean that all the necessary elements for such a curriculum are not freely accessible. Our hypothetical curriculum will simplify this model.
Hacker Fundamentals: The Everyman's Guide to How Network Packets Are Routed Across the Web Hacker Fundamentals: The Everyman's Guide to How Network Packets Are Routed Across the Web In general, hacking and information security is not just one discipline, but a number of them, and today we will look into some of the networking concepts. In the last Hacker Fundamentals, we talked about the OSI model as well as a little on TCP/IP and the protocols that make up the suite. We already covered how your data travels the OSI model, layer by layer, and talks with other machines on your local network. Much of the 'talking' on a local network are broadcasts. No routers were hurt in the writing of this article. A Tale of Two Packets: Internal If you remember correctly, an IP address has two components, the network section and the host section. Let's say you wanted to send data to another computer on your local network at home. The first thing that gets done is the computer looks at the address on the packet being sent. A Tale of Two Packets: External Route Me Baby! In Closing See Also
15 Best Online Resources for College Students Online resources have made an entire revolution in education, not only because they are convenient and accessible, but because they make the entire process of teaching and learning more interesting and memorable. There are free and paid online resources for college students and they usually complement one another quite well. Each student will prefer different resources according to their subjects of interest and learning style, but there are universally great tools that impress nearly every student who tries them. In order to help college students locate the best online resources that will make their lives easier, we tailored a list of 15 most useful links that offer exactly what they need for achieving good grades. 1. The Rapid E-Learning Blog (Articulate Network) Tom Kuhlmann is a blogger who shares practical tips all students can benefit from. 2. 3. 4. The Saylor Foundation started with a very simple, honest, and strong idea: to make education free for everyone. 5.Study Guide Zone 6.
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CS402: Computer Communications and Networks | Saylor Academy Purpose of Course showclose The Internet has become one of the most important components of our life. We browse the Web, check e-mails, make VoIP phone calls, and have video conferences via computers. All of these applications are made possible by networking computers together, and this complex network of computers is usually referred to as the Internet. This course is designed to give you a clear understanding of how networks, from in-home local area networks, or LANS, to the massive and global Internet, are built and how they allow us to use computers to share information and communicate with one another. Unit 1 introduces you to an explanation of what computer networks are as well as to some basic terminology fundamental to understanding computer networks. The rest of the course implements a top-down approach to teach you the details about each layer and the relevant protocols used in computer networks. Course Information showclose Welcome to CS402: Local Area Networks.
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The Elephant in the Universe: Dark Energy – One Minute Astronomer In our brief look at dark matter, you found more than 80% of the matter in the universe is a type of particle or particles that emit no light, interact very weakly with matter in our everyday world, yet exert profound gravitational influence on the rotation of galaxies and the movement of galaxy clusters. Although particle physicists have a few good ideas, no one knows for sure what this dark matter might be, which is a little unsettling. But it gets even stranger because astronomers have since discovered most of the universe is made not of matter but a strange and unidentified type of energy– “dark energy”– that accelerates the expansion of the universe and may one day carry distant galaxies forever out of view. It all started with an attempt to weigh the universe. In the late 1980s and into the 1990s, two teams of astronomers, one led by Saul Perlmutter and another by Brian P. Type Ia supernovae have been observed for decades. A supernova in a galaxy far, far away.
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